Patient Safety during ECMO Transportation: Single Center Experience and Literature Review.
Mateusz PusleckiKonrad BaumgartMarcin LigowskiAgnieszka SzarpakSebastian StefaniakMalgorzata LadzinskaEwa GoszczynskaPawel MarcinkowskiAnna Olasinska-WisniewskaTomasz KłosiewiczAleksander PawlakMarcin ZielinskiLukasz PusleckiRoland PodlewskiAgnieszka SzarpakMarek JemielityBartlomiej PerekPublished in: Emergency medicine international (2021)
Our experiences and literature review showed that transportation for ECMO patients done by experienced staff was associated with low mortality rate but life-threatening adverse events might occur. Translational simulation is an excellent probing technique to improve transportation safety.
Keyphrases
- patient safety
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- end stage renal disease
- case report
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- chronic kidney disease
- quality improvement
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- prognostic factors
- respiratory failure
- cardiovascular events
- mental health
- risk factors
- intensive care unit
- type diabetes
- patient reported outcomes
- mechanical ventilation